Why do we use MATLAB in digital signal processing?

MATLAB has/is/could be my bread and butter. As a budding engineer, there may be no better accomplice than MATLAB. Be it rapid prototyping an concept right down to code, visualizing mathematical formulae, know-how Fourier transforms and many others, MATLAB regulations all.

Rapid code prototyping.

With it’s arsenal of toolboxes and in-built capabilities, MATLAB offers a ramification of prepared made capabilities with particular description of the set of rules and the supply from which it's been implemented. This allows students to try diverse algorithms whilst mastering what’s going on below-the-hood.

Function names.

Most function names are intuitive and a simple seek in MATLAB assist will come up with the correct solution. Ofcource, we've web sites like Stack Overflow, however for the longest time I trusted their documentation.

Variable editor and visualizer.

This is one of the most important features of MATLAB. You can visualize the variables and see their values in the variable space.

Simple coding scheme.

MATLAB is not meant to be learnt as an object oriented programming tool. The main MATLAB code calls functions which can pass as many arguments as you want.

Graphing abilities.

MATLAB has an excellent list of simple to use plotting functions and produce decent looking graphs very quickly and intuitively. Ranging from line plot to complex polar plots, MATLAB literally has a plot for everything. Bars, graphs, cuts, histograms etc. This is particularly useful for Signal Processing.

Filtering techniques.

MATLAB has an excellent filter design suite installed in the Signal Processing toolbox. It lets you build custom filters for signals and can easily be exported out as a bunch of capacitors, resistors and inductors. For folks soldering their down filters, this is handy.